What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a commitment to being their very best. As Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis have shown in their bestselling books Primal Leadership and Resonant Leadership, they create resonance with others. Through resonance, leaders become attuned to the needs and dreams of people they lead. They create conditions where people can excel. They sustain their effectiveness through renewal. McKee, Boyatzis, and Frances Johnston share vivid, real-life stories illuminating how people can develop emotional intelligence, build resonance, and renew themselves. Reflecting 20 years of longitudinal research and practical wisdom with executives and leaders around the world, this new book is organized around a core of experience-tested exercises. These tools help you articulate your strengths and values, craft a plan for intentional change, and create resonance with others. Practical and inspiring, Becoming a Resonant Leader is your hands-on guide to developing emotional intelligence, renewing and sustaining yourself and your relationships, and taking your leadership to a whole new level. This book is ideal for anyone seeking personal and professional development and for consultants, coaches, teachers, and faculty to use with their clients or students.

(Source: Harvard Business School Press)

Great leaders are resonant leaders. Rather than constantly sacrificing themselves to workplace demands, leaders can manage the vicious cycle of stress, sacrifice, and dissonance, and renew themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. In Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and co-author Annie McKee offer inspiration and tools to spark and sustain resonance in ourselves and in those we lead.

Richard Boyatzis teams with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee to explore the role of emotional intelligence in leadership in the March 2002 release, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and primal leadership, the authors argue that a leader's emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and dissonance, it flounders. This breakthrough concept charges leaders with driving emotions in the right direction to have a positive impact on earnings or strategy.

(From: inside flap, Harvard Business School Press, 2002)

In The Competent Manager, Richard Boyatzis develops a logical, integrated model of managerial competence. This model provides a context for understanding the different demands of the management job, and helps managers tap their competencies to become more effective.

Innovation in Professional Education provides a useful approach and perspective on learning, curriculum revision and adult development for professionals in management education seeking to explore new and better ways of developing people. The processes and outcomes provide an equally hopeful message to those committed to development of people in various professions.